Torture in Yaroslavl, leaked hypersonic weapons intel, and #FreeMariaButina Friday, July 20, 2018 This day in history. On July 20, 1987, Paul McCartney started recording “Снова в СССР.” Consisting entirely of covers (mainly rock and roll oldies), it was originally released in October 1988 exclusively in the USSR.

The Federal Security Service is reportedly investigating a treason case in connection with leaked data about Russia’s hypersonic weapons program. According to the newspaper Kommersant , federal agents raided the office of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash) outside Moscow on July 20, and the office of Dmitry Paison, the director of the United Space Missile Corporation’s research and analysis center.

Police investigators want to question two reporters from the independent television station Dozhd , Anastasia Mikhailova and Kogershyn Sagiyeva, in connection with the cocaine-smuggling scandal that rocked Russia’s embassy in Buenos Aires earlier this year (when Argentina law enforcement discovered 880 pounds of coke packed in 12 suitcases hidden inside a school-housing complex attached to the embassy). The journalists’ interrogation is set for July 23.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a government order creating a new department inside Russia’s Finance Ministry to counteract foreign sanctions. The change brings the total number of Finance Ministry departments to 25, and grants staff the authority to cooperate with foreign agencies and international organizations on financial restraints imposed by sanctions.

James Gann, who put and wrote the first two films about the guards of the Galaxy, was fired from the post of director of the third part. This was announced by the chairman of the board of directors of Disney Alan Horn. Caroline Eluyemi / Camera Press / Vida Press James Gann The reason was offensive tweets written by Gannoy in 2008-2011. In them, he joked about AIDS, Holocaust, rape and beating of children.

Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, says she doesn’t see any hypocrisy in the ministry continuing to post updates on Telegram, despite the Russian federal censor’s efforts to block the instant messenger. She says the mid-April 2018 court ruling instructing Roskomnadzor to ban the service doesn’t apply to the Foreign Ministry. “We consulted with Roskomnadzor and got all the necessary explanations about this.

And will work on phones, computers, refrigerators and "smart columns" For several years, the Google Corporation has been developing a new Fuchsia operating system. As Bloomberg found out , its creators hope to replace all existing operating systems for mobile devices and computers once with Fuchsia. Fuchsia will work on everything - from computers to smart speakers.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How did Putin outplay Trump into Helsinki? And why does this not promise us anything good Alexey Ponomarev and Evgeny Berg are discussing the long -awaited meeting of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a summit in Helsinki.

The head of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, during the discussion of the results of the 2018 World Cup, asked President Vladimir Putin to think about the return of beer to the stadiums. Minnikhanov said that during the championship, when the sale was temporarily allowed, only 89 million rubles were sold in Kazan and “no excesses, there were no problems.” Putin promised to consider Minnikhanov’s proposal. Photo in the announcement: Keran McManus / Bpi / Rex / Vida Press

July 20. It turns out that Putin does not like raising the retirement age (but the reform will still be) News The FSB is investigating the case of the Stateizer due to the leakage of data on Russian hypersonic weapons to the west (everything is very secret and nothing is clear there). The Russian Foreign Ministry launched a flash mob in support of Maria Butina (no, they are not offered to shoot from short -barrels).

Evgeny Savilov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta participant in the march of Pavel Sheremet in the center of Kyiv, July 20, 2017 On the morning of July 20, 2016, a car exploded in the center of Kyiv, in which journalist Pavel Sheremet rode to work. A few minutes later he died in an ambulance. The Ukrainian authorities called the disclosure of the crime a “business of honor”, ​​but neither customers nor performers are still named.

In mid -July 2018, Apple Corporation released the update of the line of professional laptops MacBook Pro. Externally, the devices remained the same, but a more productive “iron” appeared inside. So, the most expensive versions of the MacBook Pro are now equipped with six -core Intel i9 processors, not Intel i7, as it was before.

Harry Potter translator Maria Spivak has died. This was announced on Facebook by the director of the Phantom Press publishing house Alla Steinman. Masha Spivak died today. My dear friend, I'm sorry I didn't save you. R.I.P. Details about the date of the funeral will be later. Posted by Alla Shteynman Friday, July 20, 2018 Maria Spivak was born on October 26, 1962 in Moscow. Spivak is best known for her translations of JK Rowling's Harry Potter books.

The Ministry of Labor proposed a schedule of weekends and holidays for 2019, providing for a ten-day New Year vacation from December 30 to January 8. The draft government decree prepared by the Ministry of Labor also provides for a total of nine days off in May - from May 1 to May 5 and from May 9 to 12. The proposals of the Ministry of Labor must be approved by the government.

Family members and friends of fans who came to the 2018 FIFA World Cup will be able to visit Russia until the end of 2018 on free visas. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with volunteers who worked at the World Cup.